Originally Posted by
Vicarious
Divine hymn scales, barrier does not. When you have upwards of 47k spellpower without procs it heals for more than any reduction barrier is going to do during rampages, it heals people outside your small stack who are finishing off worms if they were stunned away from the group and it makes all your other healers heal for more as well which doesn't show up on the meter directly. Also with a DA and a smoke bomb for every rampage another reduction cd looks even less appealing.
We had one wipe early on in progression on this boss where I was the only healer alive going into the 5th rampage, had sanctuary down a DI PoM threw Divine Star CoH reg PoM Divine Hymn CoH PoM one PoH got a second DI proc used it and a second Divine star and literally no one who wasn't already dead died. We still had DA and smoke bomb from dps on that one but still the raw healing power is insane. In that phase divine hymn did 13 mil echo of light did 9 mil two divine stars did 7 mil pom did 2.5 mil
My point in all this is that if I was disc I would have had a pre SS used barrier after the other two reduction cds dropped when everyone was getting low by then used my 25% less effective 90 talent and slow cast PoH and everyone would have died. Now after that the tanks had to be out of range of each other, we had no hand of purity and he had the debuff from the previous head so we wiped there but still...I didnt say holy was the end all be all of tank healing did I! :P